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Kindred Hospital and its corporate bosses in Kentucky got a lesson in patriotism Wednesday. After a thorough roasting in the blogosphere, Kindred officials decided to let hospital supervisor Debbie McLucas put an American flag back on her office wall. "We have invited the employee (McLucas) to put the flag back up," Kindred said in a brief press release. McLucas did not return phone calls from The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday but she told her story on KRLD radio’s early-morning talk show. She said her husband spent 24 years in the U.S. Army. One son is an ex-Marine and a... snip

"We have invited the employee (McLucas) to put the flag back up," Kindred said in a brief press release.

McLucas did not return phone calls from The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday but she told her story on KRLD radio’s early-morning talk show. She said her husband spent 24 years in the U.S. Army. One son is an ex-Marine and a second son is an Army veteran. A daughter is a combat medic serving in Iraq.

So, as a patriotic American and with Memorial Day approaching, McLucas decided last week to mount a 3-foot-by-five-foot American flag on the wall of an office she shares with three other supervisors at Kindred Hospital.

McLucas said she got to work on Friday and found the flag had been taken down because another supervisor had complained that the display was offensive. The complaining employee is an African immigrant who has lived in the United States for 14 years, McLucas said.

the symbol of the country that gives the offended so many options...is now offensive. The irony is astounding

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That some scum bag who came to this country, obviously because it really is the land of opportunity, would be offended by our flag, disgusts me. To bad we can't send her packing, back to the mother country. Wonder how much she or he, could get away with there.

This woman is the mother of military children, one of which is currently a medic in Iraq and she put the flag up for Memorial Day and one idiot was offended. This idiot is an African national working at this hospital. It's an office in an American hospital in an American state. Screw this bitch who was offended and the higher ups at this hospital should have had the gonads to tell her to go scratch. I say that this bitch should just move. How the frig can the American flag be offensive to someone living on American soil? I'm so tired of this freaking crap. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to live here. If the frigging symbol of this great country is offensive to you, get the hell out!